Sector 005

Quiet stretch of the voyage today, right up until it wasn't. Two bangers in the log, and both of them made me rewind before I'd decided to.

First one I hit on the way through a familiar sector. Freaks & Geeks, Elevate Records, off the Genesis EP. The track is called "Down With Your Love", and I ran it back three times without meaning to.

There's architecture in it that doesn't give itself away. The groove sits underneath and you don't find it until it's already pulling you forward. That's the jigsaw quality Elevate describe on this EP: not complicated to hear, just intricate in how it's put together. Dancefloor built. Quietly confident. Hope it gets you the same way, fam.

The second one took longer to land. Bugwell on R.O.A.M., a cover of the Radiohead track, rebuilt at 174.

I've known that melody for the better part of thirty years. Hearing it inside a drum and bass production should feel like a collision. Instead it feels like the two things belonged to each other all along, and nobody had got around to putting them together until now. There's something clean and melancholy in the way Bugwell does it, something like memory running on hardware. Cold in the right way. I've been rewinding the drop since I logged it. Hope it gets into your chest too, fam. Enjoy, cosmonauts.